Comments on: Christmas Gift Cards – Choosing the Best Gift Card

By: Missy

Missy — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:20:34 +0000

Simon Mall gift cards are nothing but a pain. I got one last Christmas and it’s been declined every time I tried to use it. Now I’ve lost $2.50 of the $25 balance because it’s been over 12 months since it was paid for. (But not since I received it, since I didn’t get it right away.) Why the heck can’t people just give cash?!?!? My employer could have saved themselves some money and made it possible for me to actually USE my gift if they had simply added $25 to my paycheck! Here I sit with a card that’s losing value every month while I waste time trying to figure out how to use it!!!

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By: Kim Meyers

Kim Meyers — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:13:07 +0000

Yeah, Simon is good. I like the giftcards website. You can upload a photo onto a gift card- pretty cool. I put a picture of my pug on one and gave it to my parents. They LOL!

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By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:27:11 +0000

Another great idea is a Simon Mall gift card…they can be used anywhere Visa cards are accepted, like a debit card, and you can keep track of your balance online. Now I ask my family for more specific and practical gift cards, like HEB, CVS, or Target, but when I was younger, I LOVED getting Simon Mall cards because I could use them anywhere I wanted, and it doesn’t have the crazy fees like the prepaid AmEx gift card does.